Word: casi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most startling car on exhibit was a stubby, dome-shaped auto that runs on electricity. Built by two French brothers, Maurice and Casi Loubière, the Symétric-Paris has a four-cylinder, 45-h.p. gasoline engine that turns a generator which, in turn, supplies current to four motors tiny enough to fit inside the wheels. If the cars were on sale to the public, the brothers estimate that the price might be about $1,000, but the French Ministry of National Defense has other plans. It is putting the car through exhaustive tests that may result...